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3 responses to Theological Education in the 21st Century

Great dialogue. I think one of the big challenges is how to make this change work well in the transition, in this liminal time. For many who are daring to approach missional formation differently, it can be more difficult and costly than it should. However, I believe it is worth it.

Thanks again for sharing such amazing conversation!

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One of the steps in that transitional period ought to be a different hiring system in the seminaries. If they can bring in people who are not just academically qualified but also bring with them a wealth of experience from a secular job, this would already be an enormous leap forward.

And instead of a church internship, students could be required to spend a minimum amount of hours every month in some type of engagement with the community – which in turn could be part of a course where the questions and challenges from that experience would have to be tackled by the lecturer as well as the student.

Eventually the question will need to be asked whether the current seminary model is sustainable and needs to make way for multivocational teachers who take a small group of students under their wing rather than the strict classroom model we have now.

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